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A brief history of the Reconquista (718-1492 AD): Conquest, repopulation and land distribution
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2020-12)This article is an attempt to summarize in the space of barely twenty pages some of the characteristics of the historical process known as the Reconquista in the territories of today’s Spain. Since this was a process ... -
A conquest of rice: agricultural expansion, impoverishment, and malaria in Turkey
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2016-04)Serving as a parliamentarian in late-1940s Turkey, Dr. Mehmet Serif Korkut wrote of his perceptions of the gravest danger to Turkish workers and the nation: malaria. In his view as physician and politician, the greatest ... -
A guide to studying the socio-ecological transition in european agriculture
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2010-07)This paper shows the potential of the Social Metabolism approach to study the industrialization of the agriculture. It provides information about the physical functioning of agrarian systems over time and their spatial ... -
La agricultura en Israel y Palestina, 1882-2000. Creando hechos sobre el terreno.
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2009-08)Este artículo describe cómo el conflicto sobre recursos de agua y tierra en el territorio de Israel/ Palestina ha configurado los sistemas agrícolas a ambos lados de la linea verde. Usando diversas fuentes, seguimos la ... -
Una agricultura mediterránea periférica: La temprana «industria de la fruta» en Chile (1910-1940).
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2010-04)Este artículo analiza el desarrollo del sector frutícola en Chile en las primeras décadas del siglo XXy explica por qué no se convirtió en el competitivo sector exportador que agricultores y expertos agrarios chilenos ... -
Agricultural Crisis and Biological Well-Being in Mexico, 1730-1835
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2009-04)In a peasant, pre-industrial society, such as eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Mexico’s, how much did adverse climatic conditions and high food prices influence the opportunities of the popular classes? Did they ... -
Agricultural crisis in Spain (19th and 20th centuries)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2017-09)Spanish agriculture over the last two centuries has been mostly analysed from the perspective of its evolution, on many occasions over the long term, and with respect to its contribution to Spain's economic development ... -
Agricultural exports and economic development in Spain during the first wave of globalisation
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2020-01)The objective of this article is to study the evolution of Spanish agricultural exports, their share of agricultural production as a whole, the determinants of their expansion and, finally, the contribution that they ... -
Archaeology of early medieval peasantry in the Basque Country: Landscapes, economic trends and societal change in Álava
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2020-12)The aim of this paper is to analyse early medieval economic trends and social change in the Basque Country, using a bottom-up approach that includes multiproxy archaeological evidence. Though comparisons will be made with ... -
Best practices for small farmers in Cuba and Costa Rica in the Global Era (1990-2008)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2015-12)This article explores the evolution of cooperatives in Costa Rica and urban agriculture in Cuba as two cases of best practices among small-scale farmers to engage in a process of agricultural development from 1990 to 2008. ... -
Building an annual series of English wheat production in an intriguing era (1645-1761): methodology, challenges and results
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2019-12)This article presents a method for estimating an annual series of English wheat production in physical units during the intriguing period of 1645-1761, when the English Agricultural Revolution began. It is based on Davenant’s ... -
Changes in the livestock sector and animal nutrition: the Italian feed industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2022-08)The aim of this work is to study the evolution of the modern feed industry in Italy. Livestock feeding changed during the nineteenth century with the spread of oilseed cakes. In European countries with more advanced ... -
Cities and milk consumption in Europe, 1890-1936: the emergence of a new market in Spain
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2017-12)One of the main features of the European nutritional transition involved the wide-spread increase in milk consumption, a singular process as it involved the emergence of new consumption preferences. This transformation ... -
Climate and crops in northwest Portugal (1798-1830): A glimpse into the past by the light of two Benedictine diaries
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2020-12)This paper aims to assess the impact of hydrometeorological phenomena on agricultural production in northwest Portugal, from the end of the eighteenth century through the first three decades of the nineteenth century. ... -
Collective organisation of knowledge in the early phase of the Dutch-Friesian dairy industry (c. 1880-1914)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2017-12)During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, science and technology opened up new avenues for dairy farmers. Improved techniques for measuring the percentage of fat content in milk and new mechanical production ... -
Common Land in Eastern Lombardy during the Nineteenth Century.
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2011-12)Este texto presente las características de las tierras comunales en Lombardía oriental durante el siglo XIX. Analiza los métodos empleados para maximizar los ingresos obtenidos del comunal y el sistemaempleado para distribuir ... -
Confusing categories: peasants, politics and national identities in the multilingual state, Belgium c. 1880-1940.
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2013-08)La politización rural ha sido el centro de un largo debate académico en la historiografía europea. Si algo ha llegado a poner de manifiesto es que ese proceso no fue lineal y estuvo revestido de ambigüedad. Bélgica un ... -
Continuity, change, and geographical differences in Spain’s firewood consumption: a new estimation (1860-2010)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2019-04)Although firewood was the main energy source until recently in most parts of the world, our understanding of its consumption levels is still quite limited, even in regard to recent periods. The powerful impact of fossil ... -
Correlations between historical climate data and incidents of common bunt in Spanish wheat, 1755-1801
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (SEHA) (2020-12)From 1755 to 1801 in Spain, many articles and reports were written about common bunt, a seed-borne plague that was difficult to control at the time. The objective of the study is to better understand this plague and the ... -
Costa Rica's outward-looking development: from ‘Agriculture of Change’ to food insecurity (1990-2008)
Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria (2014-12)Costa Rica has been a great example of the neoliberal approach to agricultural policy implemented during the last two decades in most Latin American countries. Costa Rica shifted from import substitution industrialisation ...